[Expert Solution]: Look at the requirements for the request

Look at the requirements for the request. Do you see any problems with them? (The woman from case 4 would not qualify.) • Why would they put in these guidelines? Should they be there, if they keep a competent person like the woman above from living her autonomy? (Is it to protect the doctors so they will not have to GIVE the medication?) • Is there a moral difference between prescribing the drug and actually giving it to the patient? If not, why put in the rules? • Why do you think they wouldn’t let a person who is terminally ill and in pain with possibly more than 6 months receive assistance in dying? Say someone is diagnosed with HIV? • Does the justification of euthanasia necessarily justify the assisted suicide of a healthy person? • Do you think a weakness of this law is the probability of patients being influenced by family members? (For example, for financial or other reasons?) Note: Approximately 60% of Oregonians in 2000 said (before they died) that they used the prescription at least in some part due to fear of being a burden on their family. • The AMA says that euthanasia is fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as healer. What do you think about this statement? Why should a physician have to be the one who does this?